A 19thC Human Skull Inscribed for Phrenological Demonstration sub-Mirrors & Lighting A rare and highly attractive

A rare and highly attractive piece

backgrounds to each composition and this particular example is certainly at the height of whimsy

The term "Bulldog" was first mentioned in literature around 1500

but with much stronger influences in terms of Roman

The subject

A 19thC Human Skull Inscribed for Phrenological Demonstration sub-Mirrors & Lighting A rare and highly attractiveOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1900Height: 6. 5Width: 5Depth: 8The largely in tact human skull, dating to the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, having been used for medical study or phrenological demonstration and inscribed in both in English and Latin in the early part of the twentieth century in ink, naming the regions and portions such as transverse sulcus and fossa for cerebrum, the cranium and mandible